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Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
Thomas Keating
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Thomas Keating
Age: 95 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 7
Died: 2018
Died: October 25
Catholic Priest
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New York City
New York
Thomas Aquinas Keating
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The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
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One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
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To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere or do anything special.
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God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.
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We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.
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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
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If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
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Centering prayer is a training in letting go.
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I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.
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Humility is the forgetfulness of self.
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The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.
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Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
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The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
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For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
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It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
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To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.
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Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
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Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.
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The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.
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